>>> a damned haven

1. It?s annoying when there?s a Mexican tela novela on every channel and all of them are named Maria.

2. It?s annoying when the sales clerk staples your bag 20 times.

3. It?s annoying when you buy tapes and cd?s; everything is mixed up.

4. It?s annoying when girls dress like guys; jeans and a polo shirt.

5. It?s annoying when balikbayans (Filipinos from abroad) show off.

6. It?s annoying when there?s a tagolog version of a popular English song.

7. It?s annoying when all action stars wear leather jackets.

8. It?s annoying when there are too many sales ladies in a store. 1 sales lady for every fixture.

9. It?s annoying when the biggest shoe size for men is 10.

10. It?s annoying when you buy something for P50.25 and the sales lady asks if you have 25 cents.

11. It?s annoying when Polo wearing conios at raves acting cool with their glow sticks.

12. It?s annoying when TV stations don?t put parental guidance on the news when the show dead bodies.

13. It?s annoying when a taxi driver has a rosary on the rear view mirror, then tries to rip you off.

14. It?s annoying when people are always late.

15. It?s annoying when white guys are loud, obnoxious and show off their ugly prostitutes in the bars and clubs.

16. It?s annoying when newscasters try to copy Noli De Castro.

17. It?s annoying when an XL shirt fits like a L.

18. It?s annoying when you buy something for P100.05 and the clerk doesn’t give you your 5 cents becuase they don’t have 5 cents.

19. It?s annoying when people think that the states is like Beverly Hills 90210.

20. It?s annoying when your mail gets lost / stolen / fucked up.

21. It?s annoying when there?s no water.

22. It?s annoying when when you do get water, there?s rust in it.

23. It?s annoying when you spend 1 hour in traffic, then your teacher doesn?t show up to class.

24. It?s annoying when there are too many different sized coins. (Then the government makes them invalid)

25. It?s annoying when sales ladies follow you around the store.

26. It?s annoying when you need a sales lady; she?s busy making chismis (gossip) with her co-workers.

27. It?s annoying when dirty old men try to pick up on young ladies.

28. It?s annoying when people think that there are no problems in the states.

29. It?s annoying when you watch a movie and there are loud student jologs sitting behind you.

30. It?s annoying when people pick their nose in public.

31. It?s annoying when men lift up their shirts to scratch / expose their big belly.

32. It?s annoying when there?s a clerk at the counter to stamps your receipt and checks it with a pen.

33. It?s annoying when everybody smokes.

34. It?s annoying when tricycles drive in the middle of the street.

35. It?s annoying when pedicabs bike in the middle of the street.

36. It?s annoying when people walk in the middle of the street.

37. It?s annoying when the sales lady gives you back P100 in P10 bills.

38. It?s annoying when it takes forever to fix the road.

39. It?s annoying when people worship everything white.

40. It?s annoying when no matter how beautiful or handsome a black person is; they say they are ugly.

41. It?s annoying when your maid thinks there are dinosaurs in the US because she saw Jurassic Park.

42. It?s annoying when a there is a big traffic jam and a policeman is taking another smoking break or chillin in the shade.

43. It?s annoying when there are pot holes in the street.

44. It?s annoying when garbage cans are too small.

45. It?s annoying when the garbage is in the street.

46. It?s annoying when you see a young beautiful girl with a rich, married, dirty, fat and ugly old man with gold chains around his neck.

47. It?s annoying when the Cardinal Sin sticks his nose into politics.

48. It?s annoying when your people talk slow and sing their words to you. Heeeelllloooo……..yeeeeessssss………..hiiiiiiiiiii

49. It?s annoying when the bus ticket guy asks you how many tickets you want when it’s obvious that your alone.

50. It?s annoying when you own land in a prime spot and 300 squatter families live on it.

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